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This is a fun game to relax, but even here you can make some mistakes that you will regret later, so we have prepared a guide, tips, and tricks for beginners in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life to help you play if you have just started. In this game, you will take on the role of a farmer who has decided to start a new life in Forgotten Valley. You will have to raise animals, develop your farm, build relationships with locals, and much more. Do you want to be more efficient at your farming? Then keep reading!
Story of Seasons a Wonderful Life Guide and Tips to Get Started
Although it is better to play the game at a relaxed pace and discover this cozy world step by step, it will be useful to learn some tips to make your progress better and the game even more enjoyable.
Build Relationships
Developing relationships is one of the most important parts of the game and if you do it responsibly, it will bring you a lot of benefits, as you will receive rewards for this. You will meet characters with whom you will be friends or those with whom you will have romance. And in both cases, you need to treat them well and communicate with them. To do this, you need to give gifts and choose the right answers in dialogues during events.
You can give gifts to all townspeople several times a day, so take advantage of this opportunity, especially since flowers, eggs, milk, and food made from them are usually enough. This will greatly simplify the completion of quests related to friendship and will allow you to improve tools and get new clothes. It will also help you win the favor of the boy or girl you like.
Learn More about Crops
To begin with, you should not focus too much on this in the first year. In the beginning, it’s much more profitable to make money from dairy farming and fishing because it doesn’t require as much investment and effort. But you still need crops for cooking, gifts, and next year hybridization. Hybrid crops take longer to grow but are sold for much more than regular crops.
For your crops to grow steadily, they need to be watered twice a day. But unfortunately, this requires a lot of energy, so if possible, improve the watering can. Also, pay attention to the season when you plant the crops. Look in the description how long it takes them to grow because if they don’t have time to grow by the end of the season, they will simply dry out.
Fertilizers are beneficial only if you have a Seed Maker, which is a bit expensive. But if you give gifts to Daryl you will get it for free. They are also great for growing fodder. Thanks to fertilizers, the grass will grow constantly, so when you mow it, just leave it on the field for a while to grow again. Also, don’t forget to upgrade your tools, as for example, after upgrading, a sickle will increase the harvesting area and also stop mowing unripe crops.
Take Care of Animals
Animals in Story of Seasons a Wonderful Life are quite demanding and it is not enough to just feed them to make them perform well. In addition to doing this twice a day, you also need to snuggle and brush your animals. This will increase their level of happiness and make their products better. You need to prepare a pasture for them outside, and if it starts to rain, you need to let them into the Barn and pour feed into the feeders. Sell male animals as they do not produce anything, but this does not apply to sheep as wool grows regardless of gender.
It’s much easier with birds because they can spend all the time outside regardless of the weather and they don’t need additional food.
In Story of Seasons a Wonderful Life, there are a lot of nuances that you need to care about, so first, it can be difficult to understand how to do everything right. And we hope our article has helped you to understand how to develop your farm.
Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life is available on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
